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Striking housing workers vote 99.5 percent on 93.5 percent turnout to reject inadequate NI Housing Executive pay offer

As industrial action by housing workers enters its twenty-third week without resolution, Unite demands Department for Communities intervention Thousands of social housing tenants are left without needed repair and maintenance work as a result of management intransigence Unite the union has … Continue reading

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Tenants groups in Belfast and Craigavon challenge NIHE on impact of unresolved strike

Workers enter their fifteen week of strike action for improved pay as LRA-mediated talks are due to commence this week Striking housing workers at NIHE have linked up with tenants associations and residents groups across the three housing regions impacted … Continue reading

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Housing Executive board inaction in face of withdrawal of private contractors and ongoing housing workers strike is exacerbating social housing crisis

4,000 tenants left without needed housing improvements and almost 400 houses left empty as a result Unite the union welcomes the offer by newly appointed chair of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive Nicole Lappin to engage directly with the trade … Continue reading

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Council workers, education and housing executive workers announce first week of strike action for pay justice.

Unite calls on employers to move on pay to avert disruption from strike action set to commence Monday coming [21st March] Industrial action set to proceed at nineteen NJC employers after large majorities of Unite members vote for strike action Unite … Continue reading

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Unite serves notice of strike ballot of workers at Local Authorities, Education Authority and Housing Executive

Northern Ireland Unite members to vote on industrial action alongside council workers in England and Wales Union urges members to vote yes for 10 percent after strong rejection of employers’ insulting 1.75 percent pay offer Unite today has served notice … Continue reading

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